Okay, so I couldn't give it up.  I was teaching what was supposed to be my last week in Italy and while I was th

No phone for days now, not cell or land line and Internet only intermittently. Still, you need no phone for travel. Th

The birds sang through the night and I listened. I ate beef tongue for the first time in my life yesterday
and to calm

Raining this morning with rolling thunder, but at 10 am the fog looks like it might be lifting, albeit with the hurry of